Erik Griffin Quotes

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

The most entertaining songs don't always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I'm being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually. I've found that the songs that come out of nastier, more misanthropic places are better.

Great comedy is always sadistic.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Humor is hostility.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.

Meta-comedy is everywhere and always seems so cold and to me is really kinda snarky.

Half-brights consider it comedy gold to congratulate anyone they dislike for 'winning the Kentucky Derby!' The only thing more bracingly original to not-smart people is: 'Stay classy!'

No one is better at deprecating President Trump than President Trump - just ask him.

It's rare in satirical comedy not just to be cynical.

I started out making fun of comedy. Then I became the thing I was making fun of.

It's hard to make a joke out of someone that's a joke.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.